Though it was now dark, I knew he was awake because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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Stubb was struck by a shower of outcries and anathemas proceeding from the Captain's round-house abaft and looking in that direction saw a fiery face thrust from behind the door, which was held ajar from within. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville